Unlimited Resources: Raising a Minister with a Space Supermarket-Chapter 471 - 426: Decision After Three Memorials

Chapter 471: Chapter 426: Decision After Three Memorials
"Bah!" Sun Wulin’s wife jumped up and shouted, "I refuse to reconcile, I want Jiang Haifu’s life!
Yesterday my niece told you not to to the officials, did you listen? Didn’t you come to us anyway? If today you were in power, who knows how arrogant you’d be?
You said why does heaven have such long eyes, letting the new emperor amend the law, perhaps it was specifically to deal with scoundrels like your son.
If you ask me, Lu, you should be happy. This new Lord County Magistrate is using the new law to try your son, new person, new case, how auspicious!"
After Sun Wulin’s wife finished speaking, she didn’t wait for Lu to reply and directly spoke to Min Fengyi, who was watching the spectacle with his chin propped up in the courtroom, "Your Excellency, we will not reconcile with the Jiang Family, please judge according to the law!"
"Sun Wulin’s family, if you’re suing us, then we’re suing you. My son said, knocking out teeth and breaking leg bones is a felony, all those who acted that day must be exiled!" Lu couldn’t care less about anything anymore, she absolutely couldn’t let her son die today.
She couldn’t bear the pain of losing a son, nor could she imagine the days without him.
"You really don’t scare me, before you came, I already asked the Lord County Magistrate. He said that our beating has cause and effect, we didn’t beat people for no reason, so we won’t be exiled!"
When Sun Wulin’s wife was waiting for Jiang Han and the others to catch people at Taohua Village, she had already expressed her worries to Min Fengyi.
She didn’t expect that injuring someone severely would lead to exile. At first, when she heard Min Fengyi speak, Sun Wulin’s wife was quite scared, but Min Fengyi suddenly changed his tone and said that Jiang’s family was at fault first, and the Sun family’s elders couldn’t stand it and beat them up. This matter is neither big nor small.
But he had a friendship with Su Jingchen, and was willing to help the Sun Family diminish the severity of the matter.
So, when Lu mentioned exile, the Sun family were not panicked at all.
Lu looked incredulously at Min Fengyi, who was sitting firmly in court, "Your Excellency, is what she said true?"
The Sun Family beat someone up, they can’t have done it for nothing, right?
Even if she has to lose her son, she wants all the men of the Sun family who acted to be exiled too, a mutual destruction would also be acceptable, but her son can’t take all the blame alone.
Min Fengyi resumed his stern official face and nodded seriously, "The Sun Family had justified reasons for beating someone, it was to discipline a ruffian and prevent Jiang Haifu from getting away with no punishment, which would only embolden him further, possibly leading to more despicable acts. If more women were harmed, the situation would escalate further. So, from another perspective, the Sun Family’s act of beating Jiang Haifu was a righteous act, worthy of commendation."
Secretary Liu couldn’t help but twitch the corners of his mouth when he saw his eighth master speak righteously ridiculous nonsense. He almost burst out laughing.
Min Fengyi glared at Secretary Liu, a man of such age, not having a bit of gravity.
"Secretary Liu, since the Sun Family doesn’t agree to a private settlement, draft the document!"
The County Magistrates of Great Liang indeed held power over life and death, but it required three approvals before a decision could be made, meaning if you judged a person to death, you’d have to it upwards, repeatedly three times, and you couldn’t kill at will. Even for a beheading, it must be ed and approved before execution.
Secretary Liu acknowledged and ran to his desk to write the petition document.
Seeing this, Lu began to shout madly and was soon taken out of the courtroom by Jiang Han and others. As for Jiang Haifu, when he saw Secretary Liu pick up a pen, he straightforwardly fainted.
Just as the Sun family sighed with relief, thinking the case was over, Jiang Manzi suddenly pulled Jiang Haiqiu and knelt before the Sun family.
Sun Sillin could show Jiang Haiqiu a displeased face, but Jiang Manzi was his in-law, so Sun Sillin couldn’t ignore him when he knelt and quickly went to help him up.
Unexpectedly, before he reached them, Jiang had already begun kowtowing without a word.
Seeing his father kowtow, Jiang Haiqiu followed suit, and seeing this, the old man Jiang also knelt hurriedly and joined the kowtowing team.
Jiang Dingcai, after putting down the fainted Jiang Haifu, also rolled and crawled over to kowtow to the Sun family. He couldn’t understand why when his son just drunkenly teased a girl, sentencing death was even brought up?
Does this new emperor have a killing obsession? Such a small matter, and he’s to be sentenced to death?
Seeing her four brothers-in-law look at each other in confusion, not knowing what to do, Sun Wulin’s wife quickly spoke, "Since Your Excellency has already tried the case, let’s go back?"
Who wants to see the Jiang family selling misery here?
"The case is not yet concluded!" Min Fengyi suddenly spoke.
Sun Wulin’s wife was puzzled, weren’t they not pursuing the master’s crime? Why is it still not finished?
Min Fengyi seemed to understand Sun Wulin’s wife’s inner thoughts, "Although you won’t be exiled, the person who broke a leg must still undergo punishment by stick."
"Ah? How many strokes?" Sun Erlin was shocked; he was the one who had stepped on Jiang Haifu’s leg.
"Sixty strokes!" In fact, Min Fengyi was already being lenient, otherwise, Sun Erlin, even if not exiled, would probably have to spend years in jail.
Sun Wulin’s wife suddenly knelt down, "Your Excellency, the common woman is willing to bear the sixty strokes on behalf of my second brother-in-law."
"If Your Excellency wants to hit someone, hit me. My mother has a weak body and can’t withstand sixty strokes." Sun Manyue also knelt quickly and blocked in front of her mother.
"You two get up, we four men are here, you don’t have to take the beating!" Sun Sillin went to pull up his niece.
Though their father used to favor the fifth brother, it was because they were all poor then. Now that all their families were doing well and none was lacking money, nobody minded their father’s favoritism before. For this fifth sister-in-law, who raised four kids alone without remarrying or running away, the four brothers vowed to protect her no matter what.
"Your Excellency, hit me, my second brother is old, and my body is strong, hit me!"
Sun Sillin couldn’t pull up the stubborn Sun Manyue, so he followed and knelt down as well.
"Who’s old? I’m only fifty-three this year!" Sun Erlin glared at his fourth brother, "I broke the leg, I knocked out the teeth. If Your Excellency wants to hit, hit me. Where does it happen? After the beating, can I go home?"
With a look from Min Fengyi, Jiang Han and Cui Dacheng immediately lifted Sun Erlin and took him outside. Soon, muffled sounds of hitting with the execution stick came from outside.
Min Fengyi said to Jiang Dingcai, "After the three approvals, your son will be hanged in autumn, and the government officer will inform you to collect the body by then."
Jiang Dingcai, though unwilling, was helpless, and he could only watch as people dragged Jiang Haifu away to be imprisoned.
Sun Erlin, initially expecting to be crippled if not dead, lay on the punishment bench with eyes closed, but when hit with the stick, he realized the execution stick was raised high and fell lightly.
Just as Sun Erlin was puzzled, Cui Dacheng whispered, "Scream, scream louder."